Assuming Brazil win their group, then the winner of Belgium v England is placed in the same quarter as Brazil, which isn't exactly desirable (the other quarter doesn't have any power house teams).But I don't think either team would want to take the morale hit losing a game might bring, particularly when they've both dominated a lopsided group. You don't want to stumble at the first real test.

Anyway, England isn't being totally outclassed yet (to the chagrin of 3/4 of the UK) but it's not really setting my household alight (our family sports interests have tended to point elsewhere, different shaped or sized balls, or no balls at all).

I've got a home-made spreadsheet with loads of formulaic calulations and conditional formatting set up, but that's really just for the love of calculating formulae and formattings conditional.

I'm rooting for Argentina as that's where my brother-in-law is from. He also has Swiss heritage as a backup plan. I'll be surprised if either team wins their Round of 16 game. I may not watch any more games though, unless my sleep pattern gets out of whack (which happens a lot).

Looking at the matchups for the round of 16, there's going to be no work done on Monday. I work in a metal shop and most of the shop is latino, and the Mexico v. Brazil game is on at 7:00am local time. Everyone (Including front of house, and I) will be watching the game instead.

Belial wrote:I am not even in the same country code as "the mood for this shit."

The way Mexico backed into the round of 16, they deserve to get thrashed by Brazil. There was a week there where one could have hoped for something better, maybe squeaking out something against Switzerland, but it looks to be out in the round of 16, again.

The story of my life in xkcdmafia:

Tigerlion wrote:Well, I imagine as the game progresses, various people will be getting moody.

BoomFrog wrote:I still have no idea what town moody really looks like.

So, on that basic form, for the Semis that's Uruguay, Belgium, (either) and Croatia (but Russia still has that boost and Novichok).Meaning Uruguay vs Belgium is the unknowable 'known clash' and Croatia (or Russia) seems to be the more logical winner in the 'unknown clash'.

Clearly everyone is still stunned by Belgium's victory over Brazil! That run from Lukaku

Next up: France. They're an impressive young team that will be amazing at the next euros and world cup but I feel Belgium's maturity and talent will keep them off tonight.

England might get the better of Croatia who are tired from two extended games. So the final will show what we'd hoped for in the 3 group match: the first teams of Belgium and England facing each other.

Tunisia and Panama won't have to feel bad about losing in the group stages to the two finalists.

The premier league will also have a fine day on Sunday, showing that while PL teams can't seem to win the champions league, at least they can win the world cup.